PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND SUBMIT YOUR INFORMATION IF THIS IS YOU. With no transparency, documentation is a team sport.

Such good advice, honestly.

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

At the beginning of 2015, nobody had ever detected a burst of gravitational waves. Now we've detected 390 of them, recording a diverse population of colliding black holes and neutron stars across the universe. It's like developing an entirely new human sense. 🧪🔭 www.virgo-gw.eu/news/the-new...

My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

Less of the night sky is visible than ever before NASA's Black Marble project measures artificial lighting at night. From 2014-2022, things got 34% brighter. And now over 80% of humanity can't even see the Milky Way at night. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #nightsky #nasa

Nothing like waking up to an email from a student that is so lovely it made me tear up. I don't know how you all function if you don't teach at a community college. You are missing out on interacting with the best students.

Our pups today.

Auroral beads forming close the horizon signaling an approaching substorm.

Sounds like things are not going well in Orange County, California, where 10,000 people have been told to evacuate because of a toxic chemical leak at the GKN Aerospace facility.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Bumping this, because I'm still so confused by these endorsements.

Pirate of the Southern Skies! ☠️ Our cosmic trip today takes you to NGC 2467. Sometimes referred to as the Skull and Crossbones Nebula, this nebulous collection of stellar clusters is the birthplace of many stars. 🔭

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

BREAKING: San Diego police say they are responding to an active shooter at a local Islamic Center.

Hot off the press! A new image of Mars, made using the raw images taken by Psyche on May 15th and posted just half an hour ago! 🙂 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

The #Psyche spacecraft acquired these 12 #Mars images using its Multispectral Imager Camera B and the Clear filter (515) solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

Psyche at Mars: enjoying the details captured in the pre-flyby images solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... 🔭🧪 #Psyche #Mars

Beautiful crescent view of Mars as Psyche continues it's approach for tomorrow's flyby. flic.kr/p/2sd9f6a

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

12 years and suddenly her animators lose control.

What is happening here as well, is that many career scientists at e.g., NIAID are transitioned to Schedule P/C, meaning that they can be terminated at will. The purge across our scientific and public health institutions continues, as congress is completely asleep at the steering wheel.

Our pup Amelia is a cartoon character.

I’ve been motivating my physics students to learn about thermo and climate change by having them choose an environmental/climate justice impact. Tree canopy by zip code angers anyone who chooses that topic.

Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3

Would anybody care to explain to me in simple terms why all the labor unions have endorsed a billionaire for #California governor? I know he has progressive views, and he's put his money behind them over the years, but not so much that his wealth shouldn't make him the enemy. So, please explain?

News You May Have Missed ⤵️ ALMA Reveals Teenage Years of New Worlds "ARKS" survey captures previously unknown growing pains in the lives of planets, producing the sharpest images ever of 24 debris disks. https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-teenage-new-worlds/ #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #ALMA

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I didn't have the answer for a student's question today, and I'm curious: what requires more energy - a nuclear fusion reactor or the energy going into the cumulative number of data centers and bitcoin mining operations? Has anyone done the calculations?

Celebrating 25 years of glorious, glorious FAST movies at Cannes.

A student just said they thought I was in my mid-30s, and they are now my favorite person.

Bleeeh

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

A lot of discoveries begin with "huh, that's weird." Astronomers noticed a weird dark patch at the center of this galaxy. Now it seems the void is caused by a record-breaking pair of ultramassive black holes that cleared out all the surrounding stars. 🧪🔭 www.sciencenews.org/article/larg...

Astronomers strike it rich with exoplanets: TEN THOUSAND new candidate alien worlds found! If confirmed they'll *more than double* the number known! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪

paws

Good lord, Springer needs to have a public, prime time crow-eating. They published a *meta-analysis* at 2.5 years after first public release? That’s not time for multiple, good quality studies to even exist (6 months for funding + IRB, a year of data gathering, 6 months to process data & writing.)

Hey, all. If you have an alternative way of reaching your students, pop them a message saying that deadlines are flexible and that you hope they'll get some rest. From what I've seen, they'll be very grateful for the reassurance.

Animals.

I cannot work on the online courses I'm teaching. I cannot work on the online course I am taking. That leaves me time for AO3, I believe. Don't let me down!

My community college district has been the subject of a massive cyberattack since last weekend. Admin took down our entire network to prevent more incursions. "pivot to paper" - I can't even send duplicating requests. Faculty are using their own data on campus and printing stuff out at home.

To everyone saying “maybe don’t use Canvas anymore,” on behalf of my online students, please eff off.

This has been a challenge to deal with.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Watched the finale of DAREDEVIL and was then recommended GARY, which is apparently a one-off prequel episode of THE BEAR that dropped earlier today. And none of you thought to mention this, hmm?!?!?

Trans-Neptunian Object (612533) 2002 XV93 Has An Atmosphere - But Shouldn’t astrobiology.com/2026/05/tran... #astrobiology #astrogeology #astrochemistry

On this #StarWarsDay, a reminder that my beloved @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social wrote a new scene between Clone Wars era Anakin and Obi-Wan in the fantastic "Kenobi's Shadow", featured in "The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark". books.disney.com/book/the-clo... #Maythe4th

this is why the “vibecession” talk is meaningless, home ownership is the main driver of upward mobility and it has become out of reach for almost everyone who wasnt fortunate enough to get in the game and stay there in 2005